Publications by authors named "Rosa Tejedor Lopez"

Hospital infection (HI) represents a serious care problem in critical patients. The presence of this complication is associated to an increase in the baseline seriousness of the patient, that is translated into greater care effort, multiplication of workload and greater mortality. This situation is clearly complicated when the causal agent of the infection is a multiresistant bacteria, since it also requires specific measures aimed at avoiding crossed transmission of the infection to other patients in addition to route treatment.

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Introduction: The load calculation systems of nursing work in the ICU has not had the same success in its introduction as the prognostic survival estimation systems. It causes may be: a medical design not oriented towards nursing (Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System--TISS in all its versions), lack of adaptation to the calculating of staff (Nursing Manpower Use Score--NEMS, care levels) and demand for permanent technological up-dating. In 2003, NAS was published in an attempt to obviate all the problems expressed.

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